ORTELIUS, Abraham.
[16th century Dutch map of Carinthia, Istria & Zadar]Carinthiae Ducatus, et Goritiae Palatinatus, Wolf. Lazio auctore; Histriæ tabula a Petro Coppo descr; Zarae, et Sebenici Descriptio.Antwerp, 1574 or 1575, Latin text edition. Coloured. 330 x 485mm.Three antique maps on one sheet: Carinthia in Slovenia; and Istria and Zadar in Croatia. This example has the pagination of the 1574 edition of the Theatrum erased and the number of the 1579 edition added in old ink mss: the publishers were obviously using up the remainder of an old edition.VAN DEN BROECKE: 143.
[Ref: 12893]
£400.00
($513 • €449 rates)

CAMOCIO, Giovanni Francesco.
[Scarce 16th century Venetian map of Herceg Novi, Montenegro]Castel Novo.Venice: Ferrando and/or Donato Bertelli, c.1575. 170 x 220mm. .Herceg Novi, just south of Dubrovnik, made famous by the gallant yet unsuccessful defence of the fortress by the Spanish under Francisco de Sarmiento in 1539. This map was published in Camocio's 'Isole famose, porti fortezze e terre marittime sottoposte alla Ser.ma Sig.ria di Venezia', a description of the places claimed as subject to the Republic of Venice. A later state, with plate number.
[Ref: 13489]
£450.00
($577 • €505 rates)

DE JODE, Gerard.
[The scarce De Jode map of the Danube]Nova Exactissimaque Descriptio Danubii, (qui alias Ister cognominatur) fluminis permagni...Antwerp, Arnold Coninx for the widow and heirs of Gerard de Jode, 1593. Coloured. 335 x 495mm.Christian s'Grooten's map of the course of the Danube through Switzerland, Austria and Hungary, but also showing Strassbourg, Venice and Ravenna. Bottom left is a large cartouche containing eleven armorials. Engraved c.1566-1570, this example comes from the 1593 edition of Gerard De Jode's 'Speculum Orbis Terrae', published two years after his death by his widow and son. This was to be the last edition: after the death of Cornelis De Jode in 1600 the plates were bought by the owner of the Ortelius plates, merely to stop their re-issue. Some of the most famous names in cartography of this period appear on this map: De Jode was the great rival of Ortelius, with whom he had a long-running feud; Gastaldi, De Jode's source, is best known for his maps in the 'Lafreri-type' atlases; and Lucas & Jan van Doeticum, the engravers, are renowned for the flair of their engraving for Waghenaer, Linschoten and Ortelius.KOEMAN: Jod 2.
[Ref: 17806]
£1,500.00
($1,925 • €1,685 rates)

ROSACCIO, Giuseppe.
[Fortress of Sopot, Albania]Fortezza di Sopoto.Venice: Giacomo Franco, 1598. 100 x 175mm.Sopot, on the Albanian coast just north of Corfu, published in Rosaccio's 'Viaggio da Venetia a Constantinopoli'. The fortress is shown under siege, with the use of cannon. In 1570-2 the Venetians took control but had to hand it back after the treaty of 1573. This probably represents an Ottoman counter-attack.
[Ref: 9155]
£125.00
($160 • €140 rates)